ANNUAL REPORT 2015 2. ‌clarify the standards of harmful and risky jobs that require permission when subcontracted, and increase the scope of the standards; 3. ‌revise a schedule rating system for the workers' compensation insurance and PreQualification system to put more emphasis on inducing business sites to strengthen their efforts to prevent industrial accidents than on a simple decrease in the accident rate in the long term; 4. ‌to expand the scope of the management system for integrated statistics of both prime contractors and subcontractors exclusively in application for the construction industry as of now, so as to include the industries with a higher risk of industrial accident, including the shipbuilding and steel industries; 5. ‌strengthen supervision on contracted business sites to have their project owners faithfully fulfill their duties related to the safety and health of the workers as well as reporting in case of industrial accident; and 6. come up with a plan to employ more industrial safety supervisors. J. ‌Recommendation to giving penalties due to the age of applicants for employment at local governments The Commission accepted an appeal from a complainant who allegedly suffered discrimination as he could not pass the job interview at a local government because of his age. However, its investigation could not prove that he was actually disqualified because of his age. Still, the Commission also found that there was room for controversy regarding the charge of discrimination, and therefore decided to take action. In fact, there was no point in making the applicants reveal their age to the interviewers or in allowing the interviewers to ask the age of the applicants. It was even more pointless where age did not usually matter regarding job performance or the type of work, and where the interviewees might suffer any disadvantage because of their age. As a result, the Commission issued a recommendation on November 18th, to the district mayor concerned, to: 1. ‌prevent the evaluation report from the job interview from including any information on the age of applicants; and 2. ‌prevent any job interviewer from asking the age of applicants and giving any disadvantage because of their age. 26 | National Human Rights Commission of Korea